Top 12 Adorable Butterfly Food Ideas for Kids

Healthy Butterfly Food Ideas for Kids

What’s not to love about butterflies! They are colorful, delicate, and each one is uniquely beautiful. Butterfly shaped food can be fun too! Whether you are planning a birthday party, or a teaching moment on insects with your kids, we’ve got some food to support you. These are my 12 favorite Butterfly foods that are also healthy! These ideas are meant to do as projects WITH your kids, not for them!

1- The Butterfly To-go Snack Bag

The first snack is a fun on-the go, or take it home idea that you can customize to meet your needs. You just need a clothespin, and a ziptop sandwich bag. The kids can draw a face on their butterfly body (the clothespin) and you can fill either side of the wings with fruits, nuts, or other small snacks.

2- The Bagel Butterfly

It’s simple to create a butterfly by slicing a bagel in half, and turning the two edges towards eachother. For a super tasty breakfast, we added yogurt cheese! Get the recipe and instructions for yogurt cheese here.

3- The Hungry Caterpillar Party

We took the regular snack bag idea, and turned it up a notch with googly eyes, antennae pipe cleaners red and green grapes to match the party theme. Get more ideas for this party here.

4- Sugar Snap Pea and Hummus Butterfly

The kids actually had a blast making these! Opening up some sugar snap peas surprised us every time! Sometimes, there were big fat juicy peas, and other times, they were teeny tiny! It was fun to design and create insects based on what they found inside. For more on our Sugar Snap Pea Project, head to this post! We have other bugs there too!

5- Banana Butterfly Snack

This idea started as a snack for our meal plans, but quickly turned into a favorite on our Instagram account! We just used a slice of a banana, pretzels for wings, dried cranberries for eyes, and some apple slices for the antennae!

6- The butterfly sandwich

One of my youngest food memories was my mom making butterfly sandwiches! We would stand at the back door and yell into the wind, “ahoy butterflies!” While outside, she would Prepear our sandwiches, by simply cutting the sandwich into triangles, and turning the triangles into wings. Recently, I did the same thing with my kids, but used a butterfly sandwich cutter and let them decorate the wings! Either way, we love butterfly sandwiches!

7- Butterfly Lettuce Wraps

This simple idea is so fun for a butterfly dinner wrap! Arrange some Artisan lettuce leaves as your wings. Fill with your wrap filling. Then use some carrots for the body and antennae.

8- Butterfly Waffle Butterfly

This is perfect in a Belgium waffle iron, because you get those nice triangles, rather than a square waffle. Simple bake, and turn two of the waffle pieces toward eachother, and top with fruit for color!

9- Butterfly Quesadillas

10- Butterfly Fruit Pizza

The base for this could really be anything, it doesn’t have to be a cookie! But, if you are hosting a birthday, this butterfly would be fun! You could also just make the entire butterfly just a fruit tray!